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Home / home / New Review of Girls Like Us: GLU “Bulges with Debilitating Last Lines”

Mar 24 2021

New Review of Girls Like Us: The Collection "Bulges with Debilitating Last Lines"

"The surprise-suplex-onto-concrete, knock-the-air-out-of-you kind of debilitating. Hazen is even dastardly enough to look the reader in the eye, then hook them with the very first last line: 'We’ve been called so many things that we are not, we startle at the sound of our own names.'"

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In Lannie Stabile's new review of Elizabeth Hazen's second collection Girls Like Us, she raves about the effect of Hazen's "last lines." Girls Like Us, she says, is "bulging with debilitating last lines." Like this one in the opening poem "Devices," that Stabile points to as like a "hook," “We’ve been called so many things that we are not, we startle at the sound of our own names.”

Stabile's review appears in The Poetry Question which seeks to lift the voices of small press poetry. Stabile is the Managing Editor at Barren Magazine and is a member of the MMPR Collective.

Girls Like Us is Hazen's second collection of poems after Chaos Theories (2016).

Read the full review Purchase Girls Like Us by Elizabeth Hazen

Reflections on my First AWP; or, Sleepless in SeaTac

March 17, 2023

ASP Intern and Washington College Senior Eylie Sasajima on Her First AWP Conference

An interview with the late, great Linda Pastan

February 9, 2023

Along the indifferent corridors / of space, angels could be hiding,” Linda Pastan wrote in her poem “Muse.” ASP honors the legacy of Linda Pastan (1932–2023), a former Poet Laureate of Maryland, who passed away last week. Pastan was the author of the 2018 poetry book A Dog Runs Through It, which won the Towson University Literary Award.

Here’s to 2022! And Here’s a Sale…

December 15, 2022

2022 was a big year for ASP and our writers. In March, we had a booth at the annual AWP Conference, and our offsite reading, featuring authors Saida Agostini, Dave Housley, Elizabeth Hazen, and Richard Peabody, along with special guests Teri Ellen Cross Davis and Leslie Pietrzyk, had a standing-room-only audience packed with literary stars.

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